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The Foundation for Critical Thinking is pleased to announce Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group as co-publisher and exclusive distributor, of the Thinker’s Guide Library. As of June 1st, R&L will be fulfilling all orders for these titles, and our bookstore will link to where you can place your orders.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online! This new interactive learning and communications platform provides users a place to develop together as reasoners through a multitude of activities, social media features, and more! 14-Day Free Trial!

Registration Open: The 40th Annual International Conference!

Be a part of the world's longest-running critical thinking conference! Join us in the Arkansas Ozarks, July 22-26, 2020, as we convene with educators, professionals, scholars, and others from around the world to advance our conception and application of critical thinking together!

We provide on-site as well as online professional development, helping educators bring critical thinking into the heart of their teaching and administrators instill it in the core of curricula. We also serve businesses, military, and government.

Open to the public with complimentary access (limited seating). This summit will advance discussion about how a robust conception of fairminded critical thinking can be cultivated. We are accepting presentation proposals through January of 2020.

Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate,
slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and
set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.

~ Francis Bacon (1605)

OUR MISSION

The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim
to improve education in colleges, universities and primary
through secondary schools.
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